I have never watercooled in my life but I notice a lot of talk about water pressure, height of the tank from the piping, gravity, etc. and having a background in engineering I can tell you, you can learn a lot about those things with very little study.
Google about water pressure, open or closed pipes (closed are in pressure, open are not, you deal with closed ones here), the energy height of water, how it is affected by gravity (i.e. potential energy), affected by pressure but also affected by fluid velocity. Excuse my English, I was taught those things in another Language.
To go about it properly you have to start with Fluid Mechanics. Don't go too deep into it, perhaps what is taught in the first 4-5 lectures of a common course will do.
Then you can go on with some Applied Hydraulics, they deal with more practical matters involving piping, energy potential, maybe reservoirs, etc. (Fluid Mechanics is more generic and may not even deal with piping a lot of the time but it serves the basics).
Then you can even go into Civil/Urban works of Hydraulic Engineering which is even more practical but don't ignore it, it's perhaps even more relevant to this. They deal more directly with pumps and actual networks of reservoirs, systems under pressure, external and internal networks.
I think a general understanding of those things will make a system of a pump, piping, reservoirs more clear.
Then you go to thermodynamics which is a completely different field!
Google about water pressure, open or closed pipes (closed are in pressure, open are not, you deal with closed ones here), the energy height of water, how it is affected by gravity (i.e. potential energy), affected by pressure but also affected by fluid velocity. Excuse my English, I was taught those things in another Language.
To go about it properly you have to start with Fluid Mechanics. Don't go too deep into it, perhaps what is taught in the first 4-5 lectures of a common course will do.
Then you can go on with some Applied Hydraulics, they deal with more practical matters involving piping, energy potential, maybe reservoirs, etc. (Fluid Mechanics is more generic and may not even deal with piping a lot of the time but it serves the basics).
Then you can even go into Civil/Urban works of Hydraulic Engineering which is even more practical but don't ignore it, it's perhaps even more relevant to this. They deal more directly with pumps and actual networks of reservoirs, systems under pressure, external and internal networks.
I think a general understanding of those things will make a system of a pump, piping, reservoirs more clear.
Then you go to thermodynamics which is a completely different field!